I am new to wso2 and would like to know how to use this technology to deal with ISO-8583 messages with TCP/IP Transport. I am glad if anyone could assist. Thanks.
WSO2 ESB supports ISO8583 through an inbound endpoint and a connector. You can find the artifacts at WSO2 Store.
The ISO8583 inbound endpoint allows you to consume the ISO8583 standard messages and connector allows you to access the ISO8583 Standard messages through WSO2 ESB.
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My group is evaluating HL7 Proxying and came across WS02 ESB. I have successfully configured an HL7 Proxy that seems to work well. Now my task is to secure the listening point with SSL (TLS specifically). This seems like something that the ESB should be able to handle. It can do HTTPS, Secured Web Services, etc. However, there doesn't seem to be a way to enable this with a simple check box for HL7 Proxying, nor am I finding any documentation on how to enable it manually.
Is it even possible to do secured HL7 Proxying within WS02 ESB?
Thanks in advance!
It seems WSO2 is using HAPI client for HL7 implementation and when I go through the code it seems TLS is disabled by default. Refer https://github.com/wso2/carbon-mediation/blob/master/components/business-adaptors/hl7/org.wso2.carbon.business.messaging.hl7.transport/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/business/messaging/hl7/transport/HL7TransportListener.java#L78
What is the difference between Endpoint And Connectors in Mule . For example , there is http endpoint and there is http connector . Are these terms used interchangeably ?
Connectors:
provide abstract layer over data transport mechanisms
Mule specific
provide connections to external resources(Protocols, DB, 3rd party
API)
Are Operation-based or Endpoint-based.
Endpoints:
Flow level elements
Represents specific usage of a Connector
When you drag a Connector from palette into canvas, an Endpoint is
created
Any Connector can function as an Endpoint.
Endpoints are a type of connector. Connectors in Mule are either endpoint-based or operation-based. Endpoint-based connectors follow either a one-way or request-response exchange pattern and are often (but not always) named and based around a standard data communication protocol, such as FTP, JMS, and SMTP. Operation-based connectors follow an information exchange pattern based on the operation that you select and are often (but not always) named and based around one or more specific third-party APIs.
You shouldn't confused about this, its in mule document
https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-fundamentals/v/3.7/mule-connectors
https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-user-guide/v/3.7/endpoint-configuration-reference
I'm trying to evaluate the set of out-of-the-box transports provided by Mule, and compare it with the offerings from e.g. ServiceMix and OpenESB.
On Mule's homepage, I find a list of supported transports at:
http://www.mulesoft.org/documentation/display/current/Transports+Reference
However i also find a list of Connectors at:
http://www.mulesoft.org/connectors
There seem to be at least some overlap between these lists, but some technologies are listed as transports, and not as connectors, for example there is a Quartz transport, but not a connector.
So the question is: What exactly is the difference between a Mule Transport and a Mule Connector, and why is e.g. Quartz a transport and not a connector?
Transports are targeted towards a way of transporting data, i.e. a protocol like HTTP or reading/writing files. These are general concepts and the other party behind such a data channel can be anything, a pure data sink or a party with whom data can be exchanged, own company or other.
Connectors are made for using specific APIs, e.g. those from salesforce.com or facebook. Usually, choosing a connector also determines how the data will be transferred in the end, e.g. HTTP.
From mulesoft.org:
Connectors function like endpoints by sending and receiving data over
a transport. However, while endpoints are generic for a widely-used
protocol (such as JDBC, FTP, HTTP, POP3, etc) each connector is built
to optimize the connection with a specific third-party API, such as
Salesforce or Twitter.
Message sources (inbound or outbound) in Mule make use of transports to carry messages from application to application in the Mule framework. Transports implement message channels and provide consistent connectivity to an underlying data source or message channel. Whenever there is a message source in Mule, there is a corresponding transport working in the background to establish and maintain communication. For example, the HTTP transport handles messages sent to an HTTP endpoint in Mule via HTTP protocol.
The heart of a transport is the connector which maintains the configuration and state for the transport. In other words, connectors contain nearly all the connectivity details that Mule needs to actually connect with another system or application.
I'm exploring the use of the WSO2 API Manager for our legacy API, which is currently SOAP based. IDeally, I'd like to expose a RESTful interface to our customers and have API Manager convert that to a SOAP request that gets passed to our legacy system. Searching the WSO2 site, I see there's some way to do this using XSLT transformations, but only when using the WSo2 ESB product.
Is there a way to handle this transformation in the API Manager? How? If not, could I somehow take advantage of the ESB product and combine it with the API Manager product? Or is that overkill?
Thanks!
REST to SOAP conversion is a standout feature of the WSO2 ESB. To learn more about it look at the sample given at [1]. The Payload Factory Mediator used in this sample is a much newer type of mediator than the XSLT Mediator and is also more efficient in handling SOAP messages than XSLT Mediator.
The WSO2 API Manager is a platform for publishing, managing and governing APIs. The WSO2 API Manager is built using the componentalized Carbon framework, for which almost all components of the WSO2 ESB are utilized. Therefore technically all that can be done with the WSO2 ESB can be done by the WSO2 API Manager; however without the help of the GUI found in the WSO2 ESB; you will have to use the source view of the configuration which is xml based. But ofcourse to navigate around this obstacle you can always download the WSO2 ESB product (which is also free and open-source) and create all the necessary mediation sequences using the GUI and copy-n-paste the configuration from the WSO2 ESB to the WSO2 API Manager and you are done.
In my opinion it is the WSO2 ESB that you need. In your case I presume you just have one or a few SOAP APIs which you need to expose as REST APIs; you are looking more at the REST-SOAP conversion feature rather than the ability to manage hundreds of APIs. If you do not need the core functionalities of the API Manager such as publishing APIs, versioning, authenticating consumers, throttling based on policies, and monitoring API usage (for a complete list of features look at the product homepage at [2]), then you really do not want the API Manager. But if you have the API Management requirements you can go with WSO2 API Manager. I don't think you should go with the WSO2 API Manager just because you foresee some kind of API Management requirements coming ahead.
Using both the WSO2 ESB fronted by the WSO2 API Manager is also a solution. WSO2 even recommends this architecture if you are performing heavy mediation in the mediation layer. You can even start with the WSO2 ESB alone and later when the proper requirements come, decide to front it with the WSO2 API Manager. Fronting the WSO2 ESB with the WSO2 API Manager is a breeze.
[1] http://docs.wso2.org/wiki/display/ESB403/Sample+800+Introduction+to+REST+API
[2] http://wso2.com/products/api-manager/
How do I get JMS headers on my spring integration jms inbound channel ? I have not found much information on the reference.
Thanks and regards.
Take a look at the DefaultJmsHeaderMapper class. It is responsible (by default) for mapping to and from JMS messages into Spring Integration messages. Once you define appropriate rules, JMS message headers will be visible as any other SI message headers (message.getHeaders()).